Alexander M. Ervin

Exploring Political Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Issues, Problems, and Solutions to the Climate Change Crisis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity. Rooted in anthropology, but multidisciplinary in scope, it surveys the socio-cultural and socio-economic errors, foibles, and follies that brought us to these circumstances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040105214
• Artikelnr.: 72273044

Autorenporträt

Alexander M. Ervin (PhD Illinois) is Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan where he taught and researched for 51 years. His specialities include environmental anthropology, socio-cultural change, and applied anthropology. He is a past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology. His books include Canadian Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology (2001), Applied Anthropology: Tools and Perspectives for Contemporary Practice (2005) and Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development, and Social Change (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1-What is Political Ecology?
Part I: Agriculture
Chapter 2-Overview of Global Food Production: Pressures to Industrialize
Chapter 3-Field Crops: Grains and Soy
Chapter 4- Livestock Production
Chapter 5-Who Really "Feeds a Hungry World"? Part II: Energy
Chapter 6-Coal
Chapter 7-The "Devil's Excrement"-Petroleum
Chapter 8-Hydroelectric and Irrigation Dams
Chapter 9-Uranium and Nuclear Power: The Case Against
Part III: Solutions
Chapter 10-Transforming our Political Economies and Dealing with the Issue of Constant Growth
Chapter 11-Some Solutions in Agriculture
Chapter 12-Renewable Energy Solutions
Part IV: Conclusions
Chapter 13-The Big Moral Question
Chapter 14-What Might Happen Next?